Hair dresser&#39;s pin support



y 1942- G. DRAPER ETAL 2,283,543

HAIR DRESSERS PIN SUPPORT Filed Dec. 14, 1940 (Ii-ace Draper Viola Randle Patented May 19, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,283,543 HAIR DRESSERS PIN sort-oar Grace Draper and Viola Randle, Sonora, Tex. Application December 14,1940, Serial No. 370.119 4 2 Claims.

This invention relates to devices adapted to facilitate the handling of such pins by an operator of a beauty parlor, in barber shops and the like.

In the practice of hair waving or hair dressing the operator uses a multiplicity of pins and sometimes these pins are held in readiness in various waysin the fold of a towel on the shoulders of the person having the hair dressed, in a tray or the like. Pins carried in thisway are diflicult to grasp or take hold of by the operator, becoming entangled and causing delay on the operator's part.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide a means for holding hair dressing pins and bobbie pins so that the pins may be picked up readily by the operator and to provide such means whereby the pins are in easy reach of the hair dresser.

Another object of the invention lies in the simple means employed for holding the pins, the device being of economical manufacture, durable, and strongly constructed.

The invention will be readily understood from a perusal of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the drawing, and in the drawing;

Figure 1 is a view in perspective illustrating the device in use;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the device; the view being partly broken away;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the hair pin holder showing a few hair dressing pins; and

Figure 4 is a sectional detail view of Figure 2, the view being on the line 44 thereof.

Referring in detail to the various views in the drawing, the device consists of a tray indicated generally at I and being made of some suitable, light plastic material. The tray is preferably oval in shape but may be round or of any preferred shape. The tray is intended to be supported on or adjacent the shoulder of the person having a hair treatment and as shown in Figures 3 and 4 one end thereof at 2 is slightly support hair dressing pins and particularly to are ordinarily difficult to take hold of.

ward end 2 of the-tray, some fifty or one hundred in number and being thus bunched together In the present tray and to overcome this difficulty there is provided a magnet 1, the poles 8 of which are either placed in an opening in the side walls of the tray and passed into the tray and occupy the position, shown. Or, preferably, the tray may be made of some light plastic material and the poles embedded in the walls of the tray as at 9, the walls at this point being a little thicker to more firmly secure the magnet. When in position, it will readily be seen that the pins 5 may be flicked from the bottom pile or supply of pins and against the poles of the magnet in the position of the pins l0 and the pins easily taken hold of by the operator. Secured to the outer portion of the magnet are two small hooks H which are inserted in a towel T usually placed on a person's shoulder when a hair dressing operation is in progress.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the improved tray is very useful and is capable of holding the pins in a position most advantageous to the operator and enables the pins to be readily grasped without fumbling or loss of time. The disclosure may, however, be modified and altered in keeping with the purpose thereof and which modifications and changes would be within the scope and meaning of'the claims appended hereto.

What is claimed is:

1. A hair-dressers pin tray having ovate side and end walls and a bottom, one end wall being higher than the other end wall and adapted to provide means to prevent the pins in the tray from spilling when the tray is, in position on a wearers shoulder, said tray including a magnet having its poles inside the tray approximately midway of the tray, the poles passing through the lowest end wall of the tray and being rigidly secured therein, and hooks on the field end of the magnet outside. the tray for fastening the tray in an inclined position on a wearers shoulder in operative position.

2. An article of manufacture comprising an ovate tray with a magnet having its poles inside the bottom of the tray and the poles exposed to pins contained in the tray, the field of the magnet being outside the tray and means securedto the field portion of the magnet for fastening the article to a wearer's shoulder in an inclined operative position.

GRACE DRAPER. 

